Sacrifice your soul on the quest for the Beloved:
fidelity is this, no more.
Be selfless in His district:
purity is no more than this.
To become His intimate,
render yourself selfless,
cast away “I” and “we”:
fana is no more than this.
Be courageous in annihilation
and forget this effacement;
if fana is forgotten,
baqa is no more than this.
As long as you are conscious of self in your remembrance of God,
you are heedless of God.
Seek silence:
the gnosis of God is no more than this.
Be content with the will of the Friend
and surrender to fate:
the path and the custom
of sincere lovers is no more than this.
Passion, yearning, craving and rapture
are limitations and signs of imperfection.
The perfected one is annihilated:
our aim is no more than this.
O Nurbakhsh, in the creed of the rendan
there is no discourse,
but if you must speak, what’s been said here
is sufficient — but no more than this!